Re: The demo subdirs

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 29 June 2001 10:13 am, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > Current HEAD seems to work okay for me (post Paolo Bonzini's
> > autoconf-2.50
>
> Most of this seems automake related.

Ah that makes sense.  I am using automake-1.4-p4.  

> [[explanation snipped]]
>
> Basically, we want config.status to be the one to create both ltmain.sh
> and libtool; otherwise, make can really screw things up (especially in
> combination with recent automakes).

Most definitely.  Actually you can get into the same loop with automake-1.4 
if the top level Makefile is not removed, since libtool.m4 uses the existence 
of this file to determine whether running make will create libtool. 

> And I think we want configure to configure the demo subdirs as well.

Hmm.  I hope not, since the configuration of those directories is performed 
in a controlled fashion by the tests (for --disable-shared, etc.).  This 
extra configuration would simply be a huge waste of the installers time =(O|
At worst, I'd consider it to be a serious bug in automake if it requires 
those unrelated directories to be configured.  At best, the Makefile.am's in 
libtool may be buggy and need attention for cvs automake compliance...

> I'll take a stab at the 2.50-fication of the creation of libtool/ltmain.sh
> next week.

Fantastic.  I've been trying to badger someone into doing this for a few 
days.  Thanks muchly!

Cheers,
        Gary.
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